• Rowton may refer to: Rowton, Cheshire Rowton, Shropshire Rowton Castle, a Grade II listed building in Shropshire Battle of Rowton Heath, a battle during...
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    Rowton Houses was a chain of hostels built in London, England, by the Victorian philanthropist Lord Rowton to provide decent accommodation for working...
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    Rowton Castle, near Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, is a Grade II* listed country house that was once the home of the Royal National College for the Blind...
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    Montagu William Lowry-Corry, 1st Baron Rowton, KCVO, CB, PC, DL (8 October 1838 – 9 November 1903), also known as "Monty", was a British philanthropist...
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    Rowton is a village and civil parish on the outskirts of Chester, in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and ceremonial county of Cheshire...
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    Rowton (1826–1841) was a British-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and sire best known for winning the St Leger Stakes in 1829. He was lightly campaigned during...
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    Rowton is a small village in the Telford and Wrekin Borough, Shropshire, England. It is located seven miles north-west of Wellington. The area is a Chapelry...
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    Arthur Eric Rowton Gill ARA RDI (22 February 1882 – 17 November 1940) was an English sculptor, letter cutter, typeface designer, and printmaker. Although...
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  • Rowton is a civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, England. It contains four buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England...
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    The Battle of Rowton Heath, also known as the Battle of Rowton Moor, occurred on 24 September 1645 during the English Civil War. The Parliamentarians,...
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    Rowton Hall Hotel is a historic stately home, now run as a hotel in Rowton, Cheshire, England. The hall was originally built in the 14th century and was...
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    442–444; Waller, pp. 428–429 Letter from Victoria to Montagu Corry, 1st Baron Rowton, quoted in Hibbert, p. 369 Longford, p. 437 Hibbert, p. 420; St Aubyn, p...
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  • Rowton Halt railway station was a station in Rowton, Shropshire, England. The station was opened in 1935 and closed in 1963. The halt was located to the...
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  • with George Rowton Terry Scott as Police Constable Wells Pauline Jameson as Maureen Summers, Ralph's wife Maurice Good as George Rowton Annette Kerr...
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    December 1691) was an English Nonconformist church leader and theologian from Rowton, Shropshire, who has been described as "the chief of English Protestant...
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    Arlington House, a Rowton House hostel for working men, was built in 1905. It was refurbished in 1983 and 2008, is the only Rowton House to remain in...
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    wins): Bill Scott – Jack Spigot (1821), Memnon (1825), The Colonel (1828), Rowton (1829), Don John (1838), Charles the Twelfth (1839), Launcelot (1840), Satirist...
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    spans were actually consciously invented, mathematically derived numbers. Rowton, for example, observed that a majority of the reigns in the Gutian dynasty...
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    Flavius Josephus, pp. 199–200 Josephus Flavius, Against Apion 1:17 (108) Rowton, M. B. (1 October 1950). "The Date of the Founding of Solomon's Temple"...
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    Rowten Pot (redirect from Rowton cave)
    where it was variously given the names of Rowantree Gulf, Rowting Hole, and Rowton Holes. Balderstone also claims to have explored down the gully to a depth...
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    with the Lord Rowton, who, along with the Guinness Trust, was trying to improve housing for skilled workers in London. Byng accompanied Rowton around the...
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    Lathom House Langport Hereford Kilsyth 2nd Bristol Philiphaugh 2nd Chester Rowton Heath Sherburn in Elmet 3rd Basing House Annan Moor Denbigh Green Shelford...
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    1880 was one for his private secretary, Montagu Corry, who became Baron Rowton. Returning to Hughenden, Disraeli brooded over his electoral dismissal,...
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  • Sir Thomas Lyster of Rowton Castle (1612–1655), supported King Charles I during the English Civil War. Thomas Lyster of Rowton was eleven years of age...
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    was "casually shot" by a Parliamentarian in the rout of the Royalists at Rowton Heath, near Chester, on 24 September 1645. Although the King was in mourning...
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    point during 608 BC, before such a battle could occur. The historian M.B. Rowton speculates Ashur-uballit could have lived until 606 BC, however, by this...
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    at the battles of Newbury and Naseby but died aged 22 in the Battle of Rowton Heath before the creation could be implemented. Charles Stewart, the son...
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    York. He commanded the victorious Parliamentary force in the battle of Rowton Heath on 24 September 1645. The Presbyterians Parliamentary party thought...
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    revered. The British Museum 2018. Radner 2015, pp. 7, 114. Lendering 2006. Rowton 1970, pp. 194–195. La Boda 1994, p. 89. Azize 1998, p. 1–27. Meissner 1990...
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    issue as the Royalist army. When his remaining cavalry were scattered at Rowton Heath on 24 September, Charles abandoned attempts to reach Scotland and...
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